It never ceases to amaze me how often the people who talk about “nicecore” and “hopepunk” and learning how to be a good person from TV shows like that, just turn into the most vicious, rage-filled psychos if you criticize their precious shows (which, apparently, have not actually taught them anything about how to be a…

Always enjoy your observations. Probably the most insightful and closest to my own thoughts that I read in these comments.

Yeah, it’s really wild how that just keeps never coming up. It’s so weird that this show spends so much time on dating and relationships but never addresses any of the obvious ethical problems in certain relationships.

But The Office wasn’t a show where Michael Scott appeared to be a buffoon but was actually slowly and steadily making everyone around him better paper salesmen. He was just a buffoon of a boss.

The cynic in me says that they don’t want to deal with workplace relationship ethics in the show when the creator of the show based a character on his girlfriend and hired her as a consultant, actress, and writer.

Yeah, it’s a little funny because last week I mentioned that I largely agreed with the review but I would have given it at least an A-.

I will say that Jamie's arc continues to be one of the best, possibly the best, in the whole series.

There are times the show gets better about this, and times it doesn’t.

I couldn’t help but think of this:

Yeah, it’s not just the way the show has drifted further and further not only from being about soccer, but from being an actual ensemble. And one of the regular commenters (I’m so bad with names) has been on point in observing that the writing for Keeley’s character has increasingly reduced her to her sexuality and…

There’s a land line at the cabin, though. Tom called Gene on it to tell him Barry broke out of prison.

Reading that comment, I was reminded of an observation someone made that some Ted Lasso fans see Ted as Superman because being as generally decent as he is is as far out of their reach as Superman’s powers are to mere mortals.

I hope you’re right. I wasn’t encouraged by this last episode that we’d see some consequences for Lt. Moss, since Lon didn’t show up at all and we have an apparent time skip at the end.

Yeah, that felt really off for me, like they wanted the shock and tragedy of Gene shooting his own son but didn’t really care about whether they made it plausible.

The thing that most struck me this episode in terms of comparing Barry and Breaking Bad-- particularly with Hank/Cristobal and Gene/Leo-- is that getting involved with Barry Berkman, or Walter White, inevitably brings his brand of violence and destruction down on or around you, even when he’s not around.

Yeah, it felt a little out character for Cristobal, like he somehow forgot that they’ve actually been in organized crime this whole time.

Yeah, perhaps— and that’s a problem for me and speaks to how the show is straining plausibility in seasons three and four in a way that it didn’t in the first two. Even when insane stuff happened, it grew organically from the previous action, and the actions people took had consequences. Just completely dropping the…

Nobody acted like there was anything wrong with it at all with Sam and Rebecca, either. Or even beyond being “wrong,” the head of the team’s PR expresses no reservations whatsoever about the PR scandal that could result if they’re not careful.

I just feel like, “my husband went to interview a lieutenant in the police force; he came back only speaking German and not knowing who he is; what the hell did the guy do to him?” is the sort of thing that should obviously have some ramifications, probably legal ones.

Well, let me clear, then. Michael was incapable of his job as a manager. Ted seems incapable of coaching soccer— and in a certain sense, he is; in the sense of being a motivator who brings out the best in his players an brings them together as a team, though, he’s very good. Michael was not slowly and subtly making…